I suspect that this is not going to be built.
If there is not the money or political will to build it now, will there be more money or more support in four years time ?
I rather doubt it.

Time to get serious about wind power I feel, including perhaps at Hinkly, which already has access roads and a high voltage grid connection._________________"Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more"

According to reports in todays Times, EDF want a substantial subsidy to build the proposed nuclear reactors.
A subsidy per KWH produced for decades, not a one off grant or subsidy towards the capital costs.
A figure of £165 per MWH is mentioned, though it is not entirely clear if they mean a total price, including subsidy, of £165, or a subsidy of £165 on top of the market price.

This is several times the present wholesale electricity price.

During the life of the nuclear plant, one might expect the price of FF to increase very substantialy, so it could be argued that we should take a long term view, and that eventually nuclear will pay its way.

OTOH, wind power is already cheaper than that, and may well become cheaper still as large wind turbines are mass produced.

The growing number of HVDC interconnectors between the UK and other nations make large scale wind more and viable._________________"Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more"

Cool, that's a brilliant piece. Poor old Monbiot, he's painted himself into a corner.

Theo wrote:

It is as if we were saying to our children “We have had to behave irrationally (nuclear) to avoid behaving even more irrationally (fossil fuels), because we didn’t care enough about you to take a rational, but more politically challenging, route”.

_________________The human appears to have no idea what its ideal diet should be; has self-inflicted diet-related diseases; causes extensive environmental destruction through basic food production & creates pathogenic infestations that widely infect its food supply.

"Interesting discussion between Theo Simon (of Seize the Day) and George Monbiot on Hinkley C, and nuclear power in general. To me it comes down to a choice between nukes now and sod the future (when we're all dead, but grandchildren will clean up the mess, if they can), and taking bold action now to reduce demand and put everything into renewables.

I don't have any children, so it won't affect my descendants, but I'd still rather cover the countryside in wind turbines (if that's what it takes) than leave a nuclear waste problem, as well as a wrecked climate from fossil fuel use, to future generations."_________________John

Well us in Hinkley territory (TA5 postcode) are now in limbo awaiting the outcome of what was affectionately known as the IPC, where permission will be granted (or denied)

In the meantime we in our village are having to endure to comings and goings of several HGV's each and every day whilst they (EdF) continue to raze the ground in readiness to proceed. Of course they had planning permission to rip out hedges, destroy habitat etc, and there was a time scale which appears to have since expired, so the movements I suppose are now under a different premise.

Alex_________________If it wasn't for pick-pockets & frisking at airports, I'd have no sex life at all .................Rodney Dangerfield.